bobeff/open-source-games

A list of open source games.

Games & graphicsPython#awesome-list#games#open-source

4.7 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

A curated list of open-source video games and open-source remakes of commercial games, grouped by genre from shooters and strategies to city builders.

Useful for

Find an open-source alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 or Transport Tycoon
Pick an open-source game to play on Linux without buying a license
Study the source code of classic game remakes like Caesar III or Zelda

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

80 stars so far today, about 137 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 27 per day, so that's 5.1× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 4.5× that of the previous week and a half.
GitHub Trending Python today: #4, +482 stars.
About 23 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 15,122
Stars in a day: 137
Forks: 1,256
Issues and pull requests: 125
Watchers: 145
Language: Python
License: CC0-1.0
Created: September 15, 2021
Last push: February 25, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #4, +482 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #8, +77 stars
September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #8, +78 stars

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